2006-06-06 23:12:23 · 8 answers · asked by lou 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Biology
Well, a chicken with its head cut of properly can only survive for a few moments. However, your question probably stems from the popular story of Mike, the chicken who ran around with its head cut off. You see, the farmer had not done a very good job at chopping Mike's head off. Most of the head was actually removed, but one ear remained intact. The slice actually missed the jugular vein and a clot prevented him from bleeding to death.
Apparently, most of a chicken's reflex actions are located in the brain stem, which was also largely untouched.
2006-06-06 23:21:19 · answer #1 · answered by smashingly.smashing 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's not just chickens!!
I learned very recently that at the time of the French Revolution, a time when the guillotine was in great demand for execution, a scientist made the following experiment, with the following results (all TRUE):
The scientist called out the victim's name immediately after his head fell into the basket, AND THE EYES IN THE HEAD OPENED IN RESPONSE.
2006-06-12 23:21:32 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I didn't knw either but I found the link below and this is what scientist Grace Field says:
"Before the head is cut off it is telling the body to run! Once they cut the head off the body still has that command to follow and the nerves are still active, causing the muscles to work by doing what they were told...running!"
2006-06-06 23:20:23 · answer #3 · answered by fionagirl82 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
once you all of sudden sever the pinnacle of a fowl, that is physique's autonomic apprehensive gadget motives it flail, flap and pass that is legs. it is incapable of stability, with the aid of fact the pinnacle is bumped off, even yet it could resemble working to an unexperienced individual with chickens. It flaps and jerks approximately in a random style, it is, till blood loss and oxygen loss reason that is coronary heart to end, and so on. once you sever the pinnacle, blood rushes into the windpipe, to boot, inflicting oxygen deprivation with the aid of fact the lungs fill with blood. the technique could be unsettling and frightening, however the fowl ultimately 'dies'.
2016-10-30 08:36:25 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
most of the neurons responsible for motor control are located in the chicken's spinal column. once (I think in Chicago) a headless chicken was kept alive for 41 days. they fed it with an eye dropper. it only died when it's wind pipe got plugged.
2006-06-06 23:17:33 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Reflex...
2006-06-06 23:16:40 · answer #6 · answered by changmw 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i don't know but it is so cool
2006-06-06 23:17:13 · answer #7 · answered by mommy to Dayton & Anthony 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
interneurons are still firing
2006-06-13 07:17:27 · answer #8 · answered by bo_hic_a 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋